East Azerbaijan saffron production forecast to increase by 30%

East Azerbaijan saffron production forecast to increase by 30%

Ali Rokh Afrooz, Deputy Director of Crop Production Improvement of East Azerbaijan Jihad Agricultural Organization,
also explains the province’s situation in saffron production.

He adds:
Heavy snowfall and cold weather at the time of saffron harvest is a serious threat to the harvest,
but this year the weather is excellent and there is no problem in this regard, and even with this type of weather.

He continues:
Due to the reduction of groundwater, the Jihad Agricultural Organization of the province has planned
to include low-water and economical crops in the pattern of cultivation of the province’s crops,
which also contains saffron, because saffron to a minimum It needs water and the field can be irrigated at most
twice and when other crops do not need irrigation.

Rokh Afrooz, stating that the average yield of dry saffron production in the country is 3.4 kg per hectare, says:
With the efforts of literate and provincial farmers, the average yield of this crop in the province reaches four kg per hectare.

Regarding saffron processing, he states:
The Rural Cooperative Organization intends to enter the issue of saffron processing and supply to the market and wants to buy
and sell in the form of stock exchanges and export this product to different countries.

Regarding the saffron export situation, he says:
Before the corona, the export situation was good and it was done in the form of customs and luggage,
but after the corona, due to export restrictions, despite the lack of export barriers, exports have decreased.

He notes:
Saffron is a mazar product on the country’s production and usually does not have much domestic consumption,
so when the product is harvested and marketed all over the country at the same time,
some try to lower prices and farmers to some extent. If he pays for the expenses,
This is a principle at harvest time.